He continued, "We're flying through it, but I don't think that'll have any bearing on when it gets released. I don't think we'll release it until towards the end of the year. It's happening fast on its own, but we had to cram Chad, drums] into this five-week period we have here to get it done. We're way ahead of that. We expected in the five weeks to get 12 or 13 songs written and lay down the drum tracks. Then Chad could go away for the rest of the year and Joe, Michael and I could finish the record. That's the way it was planned, but we're way beyond that. It's fucking crazy, the chemistry in this band. We're even pushing ourselves this time to do some things musically that we know we're capable of, but that we haven't touched on yet. I keep telling Joe, 'Come up with any idea you want for me. How would you like to hear me sing? Write some music like that and I'll stretch myself and make my voice and lyric ideas work for that music.' We've done this already in a short time, and it seems like with this band everything just comes easy. No matter what we bite off, it comes easy. There's a real special chemistry that we have with this band."